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Ambition report 8th.May’26
The weather was looking good last Wednesday and after the results from the Port Hacking Tournament during the weekend I was pretty optimistic that we’d find something out there.
We left the club with Zirui and a couple of his friends who were really keen to catch a Marlin or a Tuna.The sea was as calm as you get off Sydney but as I looked down into the cockpit all three guys were turning a lighter shade of green. However, to my surprise they didn’t look like giving up.
Around the seventy fathom area I started marking bait, lots of bait but it was down near the bottom and the water looked cloudy so I continued out to the ‘Bait Station’. When we got there, there was neither bait nor birds but the water colour looked good and the temperature had reached 23.5C so in went the lures.
Finally
It took a while to raise a fish and this fish took a liking to the Pakula ‘Black Betty’ on the short corner. This Marlin took an incredible liking to that lure and taking at least eight shots at the lure. No matter how much we teased it we couldn’t get a hook up. While we had been concentrating so much on the short corner we didn’t notice other fish hitting the shot gun and long corner. Then, as we were trying to coach the other Marlin into striking the short corner took off and we at last had a solid hook up and Zirui took the rod, I must say with great difficulty.
Anyway, to cut a long story short after only a few minutes the line went slack. The lure was gone. Somehow the four hundred pound leader had parted. I thought it might have been worn through but on inspection it looked like a clean cut with a bit of wear just above the break, another mystery yet to be solved.
Well all that excitement was too much for one of Zirui’s friends who had been quietly suffering badly. Consequently we made the decision to go back.
On the way in, where I’d seen the bait before it was now on the surface with Gannets, Dolphins and one lone Humpback making the most of it. I think the Humpback just happened to be in the area.
Tight lines,
Ivan
All lure used unless otherwise specified are Pakula Lures .
